FESTIVALS & AWARDS
* 1993 Venice Film Festival:
- Grand Special Jury Prize
- FIPRESCI (International Critics) Award shared with Altman's 'Short Cuts'
- Italian Cinemagoers Award (CIAK) for "Best Film and Best Actor"
- OCIC (Ecumenical Award) Bronze Plaque
* 1994 Seattle Film Festival: Best Achievement in Direction and Runner up Best Film
* 1994 Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Achievement in Direction, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and Best Achievement in Editing
* 1994 NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Best Screenplay
MEDIA QUOTES FROM BAD BOY BUBBY
SCREENING AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 1993
ENGLAND
"The real triumph of this year's festival was the Special Jury Prize Winner, 'Bad Boy Bubby'. Film festivals are in part about the discovery of new art-house directors who have the potential to reach wider audiences. Mr de Heer's powerful insight into the mind of an "adult" child coming to terms with his own massively stunted growth is a case in point. It deserves to win a place on cinema screens across the world." The Economist
"The biggest surprise of the Festival is 'Bad Boy Bubby', from Australia. The debut from Rolf de Heer is the kind of small epic at which you are not quite certain whether to laugh or cry...astonishingly audacious and original." Derek Malcolm, The Guardian
"'Bad Boy Bubby' from Australia takes Magic Realism and turns it into - let us register a new genre - Agit-Surrealism," Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
FRANCE
"The Special Jury Prize goes to a masterpiece that many consider the revelation of this festival 'Bad Boy Bubby' by Rolf de Heer". Vanja Luksio, Le Soir
"A mediocre festival this year without surprise or discoveries except for Rolf de Heer who reveals an authentic personality of character". Marie Tranchant, Le Figaro
"Rolf de Heer arrives with freedom, energy, and compassion at the crossroads where Bunel meets the Coen Brothers... 'Bad Boy Bubby' is Voltaire's 'Candide' gone 'grunge', it's Dostoyevski's 'Idiot' remade by the 'Rock Generation'. Nick Hope is astonishing". Danielle Heymann, Le Monde
GERMANY
"The most inspiring is the winner of the Special Jury Prize for the Australian contribution from Rolf de Heer. A right prize for an extraordinary film. Bubby is memorably played by Nick Hope. De Heer continually surprises with new and risky developments of the story, ignoring the so called 'good taste' and reworks the myth of the Frankenstein monster into Peter Sellers childish uplifting of the world in 'Being There'. Sueddeutsche Zeitung
HOLLAND
"De Heer is considered the discovery of the festival." De Algemeen Daglad
"De Heer has a risky sense of humor that is typically Australian. He walks with his muddy seven miles boots through a china cabinet. Murder, lust, sex...he hits the nail on the head". Het Parool
ITALY
"...a provocative drama immersed in a black comedy...Some people will love it and some people will hate it but certainly everyone will be talking about it." Ciak
"Nick Hope is simply magnetic". Il Messaggero
"A great discovery...a satire on the virtues and paradoxes of ignorance which help us to look at things with a freshness." La Repubblica
"It resembles a punk version of Beckett". L'Unita
SWITZERLAND
"The jury prize went to an Australian Rolf de Heer for his coveted 'Bad Boy Bubby'... it undercut the ordinary parameters of cinema and moved the public between amazement and laughter...radical in its breakdown of taboos... and consideration of the spiritually crippled. 'Bad Boy Bubby' clearly portrayed modern feelings of urban paranoia towards corporate decadence, and moral degeneration developed in a forum of light hearted cynicism'. Neue Zuercher Zeitung
US
"...the Jury had no trouble assigning this joyfully outrageous and original film the prestigious Special Jury Prize". Deborah Young, Variety
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